rtkit is a dbus service needed for pipewire to apply for a realtime priority. It needs a separate user to run. groupadd -g 378 rtkit useradd -u 378 -s /bin/false -d /var/lib/rtkit \ -g rtkit rtkit In principle, pipewire may function without this service, but it helps to placate some error messages present on Slackware 15.0 default setup.